Lueth

MEMORANDUM **

Carl Lueth appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence of a firearm found during a police search of his motel room. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Viewing the circumstances in their totality, the district court did not clearly err in determining that Lueth voluntarily consented to a search. United States v. Enslin, 327 F.3d 788, 792 (9th Cir.2003). Although the deputies did not give Lueth his Miranda rights nor tell him that a search warrant could be obtained, the district court did not clearly err in finding that Lueth consented to the deputies’ entering the room three times (once after a deputy informed Lueth of his ability to refuse to consent to the search, terminate the search at any time, or limit the scope of the search), and that he was not in custody when he consented to the search. See United States v. Chan-Jimenez, 125 F.3d 1324, 1327 (9th Cir.1997).

Nor did the deputies exceed the scope of the search by searching under the hotel bed’s boxspring. The issue is what “the typical reasonable person would have understood by the exchange between the officer and [Lueth][.]” Florida v. Jimeno, 500 U.S.…